Oct 05, 2023 - Sale 2647

Sale 2647 - Lot 284

Price Realized: $ 16,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ARTHUR TRESS (1940- )
The Dream Collection portfolio. This exceedingly rare portfolio is complete with 12 photographs. From the planned edition of 50, only five sets were finished and boxed. Silver prints, the images each measuring 10 3/4 inches (27.3 cm.) square, the mounts 18x14 inches (45.7x35.6 cm.), each with Tress' signature and title in ink on mount recto and the edition notation 4/50 also in ink on mount verso. FROM AN UNREALIZED LIMITED EDITION OF 50, THIS NUMBER 4. Folio-sized silver-stamped and blind stamped gray box; the colophon with Tress' signature and the set number in ink and text by Duane Michals; contents loose as issued. Self-published, 1968-75

Man with Sheep, 1971 * Boy in Flood Dream, 1972 * Boy with Hockey Gloves, 1968 * Mother & Daughter, nd * The Music Lesson, circa 1974 * Claire de Lune, 1975 * Tarot Card - Harmony, nd * Ghost in Attic, circa 1973 * The Trainer, circa 1977 * Wounded Owl, 1970 * Boy in Mud Dream, 1974 * Girl with Goldfish, 1971

Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York